Quote:As Bortles goes through those growing pains, it would be logical to see more turnovers in the beginning. Turnovers lead to more defensive side.. In short, this defense will have to get it together. The clots scored on every possession in the first quarter.. So I don't buy that 3 and outs gassed the defense. They were awful

Maybe the first two possessions can make this true but our offense took an entire half and change to get a first down. There was no ball movement from our offense. The defense needs to start better but to think playing 12 of the 15 first quarter minutes helped them is just wrong.


At some point the offense has to move the ball. There are no more shutouts like the ravens in 2000 did. We have to scale the thinking here. To me shutting a team out now is holding them to 10-14 points. Teams are going to score and move the ball. They have changed the rules to make this happen. When a ball control team like the clots put up 44 that mean we did absolutely nothing on offense. We didn't even change the field posistion.


The clots constantly started on the 35 plus. That stuff matters.


The game was also 10-0 at the end of the first quarter. We were still in it.

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